Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,882, Joshua Disbrow, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Disbrow, Joshua or Desbrow
S. 37,882
CONTENTS

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Connecticut Roll -
✓ Joshua Desbrow Capt Pond
Sergeant Major Connecticut Line
the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th of Nov r 1818 and sent to Pierpont Edwards Esq r Judge Bridgeport
Arrears to 4th of September 1818 4 m th & 24 / 30 - 38:40 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th March 1819 - 48: -
Continued $ 86:40
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
77 Two Years
Fairfield
Connecticut }
(Faint mirrored text from the reverse page) Joshua Desbrow Capt Pond Sergeant Major Connecticut Line the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of April 1818. Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th of Nov r 1818 and sent to Pierpont Edwards Esq r Judge Bridgeport Arrears to 4th of September 1818 4 m th & 24 / 30 - 38:40 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th March 1819 - 48: - Continued $ 86:40 { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 } 77 Two Years Fairfield Connecticut }

District of Connecticut
On this 11 th Day April A.D. 1818 Joshua Bisbrow of Fairfield in said District under oath declares before Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut in which District the Declarant now resides and ever since the end of the war of the Revolution hath resided That in the month of April in the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven the declarant enlisted as a Sergeant Major in the service of the United States in Captain Charles Pond's Company Colonel Douglass' Regiment being the sixth Regiment in the Connecticut line on the Continental establishment of the armies of the United States in the war of the revolution for the term of the continuance of said war but that on the first day of May in the same year 1777 he received a Warrant as a Lieutenant Major of that date signed R. J. Meigs the then Colonel and commandant of said Regiment and that the Declarant from that time forward until the fifth day of August A.D. 1779 faithfully served the in said line on said establishment of said armies in said war against the common enemy as a Sergeant Major as aforesaid and that on the same fifth day of August 1779 he was from said service honorably discharged by a discharge under the hand of Sam l H. Parsons then a Brigadier General in the armies of the United States which said Discharge together with said Warrant the Declarant now exhibits to said Judge And the Declarant further maketh oath that he now is and ever since the declaration of Independence hath been a resident citizen of the United States but that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for his support Joshua Bisbrow

District of Connecticut ss April 11 th 1818 And within or aforesaid Joshua Dinslow came before me in my presence subscribed the aforesaid declaration & made Oath that the same is true
J. Richard Edwards District Judge of said District -

District of Connecticut ss
On this 11 th day of April A D 1818 before me Richard Edwards District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut came Seymour Taylor a respectable citizen of Fairfield in said District who being duly sworn doth depose & say that he well knows that the above named Defendant Joshua Dishon is now & ever since the declaration of Independence hath been a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for his support
Seymour Taylor
Affidavit of 1818 sworn before me
Richard Edwards
District Judge of the District of Connecticut

Joshua Desbrow
4.311
March 10/19
[Faint signature or initials]

District and State of Connecticut, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That in the County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield, in the District and State aforesaid, on this - 25 th day of July 1820, the same being a Court
of Record, and having a Seal, under the Authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court Joshua Disbrow aged sixty nine years, resident in the Town of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield, in said State, and being first duly sworn according to Law, doth declare on his oath, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: Enlisted April 1777 Col: Dimeon's
Regiment and served in sd Regiment until his death and then served under Col. Brig  Meigs - in the whole my service amounted to two years and about five months for further particulars reference being had to my original declaration now in the War office
that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a Pension, under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, was dated the 11 th day of April 1818 that in pursuance thereof
he was entered in the List of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 4,311 And I do further solemnly
Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person, in trust, for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation is that of a Shoe Maker
but unable to pursue it and that I have no family residing with me and at this time I cannot support myself by any labour which I can perform
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid.
Joshua Disbrow
Sworn to and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule, is nineteen Dollars and Fifteen Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court.
Attest David Burr Clerk

At a County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield, in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 25 th day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, by virtue of the Laws of said State.
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, Joshua Dishbrow — a resident in the Town of Fairfield — in the County of Fairfield, in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, necessary cloathing and bedding excepted, viz.
   two Chests $1-50   one old Shovel 25-   2 old Chairs 12 3/4   Crockery 1-25-   Knives & forks 25-   Spoons 12 3/4   one Case 12   tin Ware 50   2 Jugs 25-   glass bottles 18   Hand Saw 18   Hatchet &c 50   bellows 25-   Auger 25-   Steelyards 25-   Candle Stick 6   Iron Ware $1.25   Shovel & tongs 75-   Mammel 50   hocs 75-   Spade & net 75-   old Boat $2.00   Looking Glass 1.25-   Wooden Bottle 50   and Irons 38   Lobster Pot 4.50   Lobster can 50  
$19-16
Joshua Dishbrow
101 Est

ms State of Connecticut, ss.
I DAVID BURR, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in the said State, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule of Joshua Disbrow is nineteen Dollars \frac{16}{100}
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Fairfield, this 25- day of July . 1820.
David Burr
Clerk of the County Court for said County of Fairfield.
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DISBROW, JOSHUA (CONN.) S-37882

Joshua Desbrow Sergeant Major of the 6 th Connec ts Reg t having offered Reasons satisfactory to me is hereby discharged from further Service in the Army. Camp in Highlands 5. Aug. 1779
Sam l H. Parsons Col y
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DISBROW, JOSHUA (CONN.) S-37882

RETURN JONATHAN MEIGS, Esquire, Colonel and Commander of a Regular Regiment of Foot, raised in Connecticut, in Defence of the Thirteen United States of America.
To Joshua Dinsmore
GREETING.
REPOSING special Confidence in your Courage, Skill and good Conduct, I do by these Presents Constitute and Ap- point you the id  Joshua Dinsmore to be Sergeant the Company in the Regiment now under my Command. You are therefore faithfully and dili- gently to exercise the several Trusts and Duties of said Office, in a strict and careful discharge of the same; and you are to observe and obey all such Orders as you may from Time to Time receive from me, or other your superior Officer: And to instruct them the said Company in the use of Arms, and all necessary Duties; command- ing them to obey you as their Serjeant, for which, this shall be your sufficient WARRANT.
Given under my Hand and Seal, at White Plains this 10 th Day of May Anno Domini, 1777
B. J. Meigs Col o

37 882 INVALID. Arg
File No. 37 882
Joshua Dookrow Deputy Govt. Secy
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: —Vol. 2 , Page 125
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Joshua Dillane
The
Honorable John C. Calhoun
Secretary of the Department of War
Washington

Joshua Desbrow, serg t . major, Connecticut line, 11. April, 1818.
Admitted
Pierpont Edwards, Esq; Judge, Bridgeport, Fairfield Co. Connecticut. Rec d 27. May, 1818.

I Peirpont Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Joshua Disbrow who made & subscribed the declaration contained in the annexed Schedule did serve in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy as stated in his said declaration & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me in his case to the Secretary of the department of war pursuant to an act of Congress in such made & provided said proceedings & testimony are contained in the annexed schedule 2 nd 1818
Peirpont Edwards